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EP2234908B1
EP2234908B1 EP08737579.6A EP08737579A EP2234908B1 EP 2234908 B1 EP2234908 B1 EP 2234908B1 EP 08737579 A EP08737579 A EP 08737579A EP 2234908 B1 EP2234908 B1 EP 2234908B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/82—Rotary or reciprocating members for direct action on articles or materials, e.g. pushers, rakes, shovels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/16—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B65B7/28—Closing semi-rigid or rigid containers or receptacles not deformed by, or not taking-up shape of, contents, e.g. boxes or cartons by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers
    • B65B7/2807—Feeding closures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/003—Pretreatment of caps, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating or sterilizing

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  • the invention relates to the container industry, and more specifically to the capping of containers.
  • containers are immediately capped, at a capping unit, with caps supplied by a cap feeding unit.
  • caps are supplied from a hopper into a cap feeding line where caps are moved in at least one row towards the capping unit.
  • caps are initially stored in a non-sterile environment (such as a hopper), they are generally sterilized before they reach the capping unit.
  • caps are generally moved by a cap transfer unit, along a transfer path, through a sterile chamber where sterilization is realized, e.g. by spraying hot hydrogen peroxide, in order to subsequently close the containers which have been filled in aseptic conditions.
  • sterilization e.g. by spraying hot hydrogen peroxide
  • cap supply from the hopper may be achieved by the sole gravity, to an inclined (or vertical) feeding line.
  • the caps may be moved by a stream of pulsed air, provided by air nozzles located in the vicinity of the path. It is critical to ensure smooth and quick movement of the caps, since, in the end, the cap supply rate must be equal to the predetermined capping rate, which in turn is equal to the container filling rate.
  • the cap supply rate must be equal to the predetermined capping rate, which in turn is equal to the container filling rate.
  • Cap transfer through the sterilization chamber is a peculiar operation in cap handling, for submission of the caps to the sterilization agent must take a predetermined time, which must be long enough to achieve sterilization, and yet short enough to avoid cap damage since hot hydrogen peroxide may cause surface attack.
  • the moving speed of the caps is generally controlled, e.g. by means of a transfer wheel located in a loading area of the cap transfer line, the rotational speed of which is set to a predetermined value. It is also preferable to arrange horizontally the cap transfer line, in order to avoid uncontrolled displacement of the caps during the sterilization process. Furthermore, since the environment in the sterilization chamber must be kept sterile, it is not allowed to use air nozzles to force the caps along the transfer line.
  • Such a design may lead to a major difficulty.
  • caps are missing upstream the transfer wheel, e.g. because of an upstream cap jam or emptiness of the hopper, the caps standing along the transfer path in the sterilization chamber are stopped, thereby leading to cap damage.
  • JP 5-51019 discloses a cap transfer unit according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the object of the invention is achieved by the cap transfer unit of claim 1.
  • cap transfer unit 1 as part of a container handling machine in which containers are sterilized, filled and then capped.
  • Caps 2 are put in bulk in a hopper (not shown), for example of the rotating/vibrating type, standing on top of a machine frame, and fed from the hopper to an upstream cap feeding line 3 receiving a row of caps 2.
  • the cap feeding line 3 moves the caps 2 from the hopper to a loading area 4 where caps 2 are fed to the cap transfer unit 1 .
  • Caps 2 are then transferred by the cap transfer unit 1 , with their concavity oriented downwards, from the cap loading area 4 , along a cap transfer path 5 , to a cap discharge area 6 .
  • caps 2 are fed to a downstream cap feeding line 7 in which caps are moved to a container capping unit, where caps 2 are put on the mouths of the containers and screwed thereto.
  • the cap transfer path 5 goes horizontally in straight line across a cap sterilization chamber. More precisely, as illustrated, the container transfer unit 1 comprises a straight guide rail 8 including a group of wires 9 together defining an inner space 10 in which the caps 2 are slidingly received.
  • the container transfer unit 1 comprises a cap transfer star wheel 11 interposed between the upstream cap feeding line 3 and the guide rail 8 .
  • the star wheel 11 is provided, on its periphery, with a plurality of recesses 12 for engaging caps 2 .
  • a curved guide 13 is mounted between the upstream feeding line 3 and a proximal end of the guide rail 8 , defining an arc-of-circle path 14 along which caps 2 received in the recesses 12 are moved to the guiding rail 8 .
  • the star wheel 11 is driven by a motor 15 fixed on a machine frame.
  • the motor 15 controls the rotational speed of the star wheel 11 , and thus, in normal operation, the linear speed of the caps 2 in the guide rail 8 , which corresponds to the tangential speed of the star wheel 11 .
  • the cap transfer unit 1 further comprises a cap pusher 16 , slidingly mounted along the cap transfer path 5. More precisely, the cap pusher 16 comprises a body 17 slidingly mounted on a cylindrical guiding rod 18 extending parallel to and above the guide rail 8, and a finger 19 protruding downwardly from the body 17 for contacting the caps 2 , as will be disclosed in further details hereinafter.
  • the cap pusher 16 has three positions, i.e.:
  • the finger 19 protrudes transversally across the inner space 10 of the guide rail 8 for coming into abutment with caps 2 located therein and standing still, to push them along the transfer path 5 to the discharge area 6 .
  • the rest position is the default position of the cap pusher 16 in a normal operation of the cap transfer unit 1 , as long as a continuous flow of caps 2 are fed from the upstream feeding line 3 to the guide rail 8 via the star wheel 11 .
  • the cap pusher 16 is translated from its rest position to its active position ( FIG.3 ) wherein the finger 19 comes into abutment with the row of caps 2 standing still in the guide rail 8 .
  • the pusher 16 moves along the transfer path 5 , it forces the caps 2 to slide in the guiding rail 8 to the discharged area 6 , where they are fed to the downstream cap feeding line 7.
  • the cap pusher 16 then reaches its stop position where it is stopped and translated back to its rest position.
  • the star wheel 11 is stopped to prevent additional caps 2 from being fed to the guide rail 8 upstream the cap pusher 16 as the same is in its active position, thereby avoiding cap jamming as the cap pusher 16 returns to its rest position.
  • Interruption of the flow of caps 2 may be sensed by means of a presence sensor located e.g. in the loading area 4 , e.g. at the vertical of the curved guide 13 , whereby when absence of caps is sensed during a predetermined amount of time (for example corresponding to the ordinary passage of five successive caps), the sensor sends an emergency signal to a control unit which in reaction commands stopover of the star wheel 11 and displacement of the cap pusher 16 to evacuate from the guide rail 8 the residual caps 2 standing therein.
  • a presence sensor located e.g. in the loading area 4 , e.g. at the vertical of the curved guide 13 , whereby when absence of caps is sensed during a predetermined amount of time (for example corresponding to the ordinary passage of five successive caps), the sensor sends an emergency signal to a control unit which in reaction commands stopover of the star wheel 11 and displacement of the cap pusher 16 to evacuate from the guide rail 8 the residual caps 2 standing therein.
  • a drive unit 22 comprising a drive cable 23 mounted between a driving pulley 24 located in the vicinity of the discharge area 6 , and a driven pulley 25 located in the vicinity of the loading area 4 .
  • the driven pulley 25 is mounted on a bracket 26 fixed to a machine frame, and a cable tightener pulley 27 is mounted in the vicinity of the driven pulley 25 with transversal travel in order to ensure tightening of the cable 23 .
  • a motor 28 is coupled to the driving pulley 24 for rotating the driving pulley 24 and hence translating the cable 23 (and the cap pusher 16 fixed thereto) along the transfer path 5 .
  • the cable 23 includes a front strand 29 running parallel to the guiding rail 8 in the vicinity thereof, and a rear strand 30 running at a distance therefrom.
  • the cap pusher 16 is attached to the front strand 29 of the cable 23 by means of a lateral plate 31 screwed to the body 17 of the cap pusher 16 to rigidly clamp the strand 29 .
  • presence sensors such as a capacitive sensors
  • a first sensor 32 located at the vertical of the rest position ( FIG.2 ) for sensing presence of the cap pusher 16 in the rest position
  • a stop sensor 33 located at the vertical of the stop position ( FIG.5 ) for sensing presence of the cap pusher 16 in the stop position.
  • the cap transfer unit 1 provides safe and reliable cap emergency displacement in cap handling areas in which ordinary cap displacement means (such as pulsed air) do not apply.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Sealing Of Jars (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Special Conveying (AREA)

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  1. Kappentransfereinheit (1), umfassend eine Führungsschiene (8) zur gleitenden Aufnahme von Kappen (2), wobei die Führungsschiene (8) einen Transferpfad (5) von einem Kappenladebereich (4) zu einem Kappenabgabebereich (6) definiert, und ein Spornrad (11) in dem Ladebereich (4), wobei das Spornrad (11) zwischen eine stromaufwärts befindliche Kappenzuführung (3) und die Führungsschiene (8) eingefügt ist, um die Kappen (2) dem Transferpfad (5) zuzuführen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie ferner einen Kappendrücker (16) umfasst, der gleitend entlang der Führungsschiene (8) angebracht ist, wobei der Kappendrücker (16) eine Ruheposition aufweist, in der der Kappendrücker (16) von dem Transferpfad (5) beabstandet ist, und eine aktive Position aufweist, in der der Kappendrücker (16) den Transferpfad (5) wenigstens teilweise überlappt, um in einen anliegenden Kontakt mit darauf befindlichen Kappen (2) zu gelangen.
  2. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach Anspruch 1, umfassend eine parallel zu der Führungsschiene (8) angebrachte Führungsstange (18), an der der Drücker (16) gleitend angebracht ist.
  3. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei der Drücker (16) einen an der Führungsstange (18) angebrachten Körper (17) und einen Finger (19), der von dem Körper (17) vorspringt, um mit den Kappen (2) in Kontakt zu gelangen, umfasst.
  4. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, ferner umfassend eine Antriebseinheit (22), um den Kappendrücker (16) den Transferpfad (5) entlang zu bewegen.
  5. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach Anspruch 4, wobei die Antriebseinheit (22) ein Antriebskabel (23) umfasst, das einen Strang (29) aufweist, an dem der Kappendrücker (16) fixiert ist.
  6. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach Anspruch 5, wobei die Antriebseinheit (22) eine Antriebsscheibe (24) und eine angetriebene Scheibe (25), zwischen denen das Kabel (23) angebracht ist, und einen mit der Antriebsscheibe (24) gekoppelten Motor (28) umfasst.
  7. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, wobei sich der Drücker (16) in der Ruheposition außerhalb des Transferpfads (5) in der Nähe des Ladebereichs (4) befindet.
  8. Kappentransfereinheit (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, ferner umfassend einen Sensor (32), um die Anwesenheit des Kappendrückers (16) in seiner Ruheposition zu erfassen.
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